Word: arbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mourning dove has set up housekeeping in Jackie Kennedy's garden and another that has nested under Andrew Jackson's magnolia. The mockingbirds are getting into the concord grapes, which are just turning juicy in the arbor. There are in fact about 16 kinds of permanent bird residents on the White House's 18 acres-catbird, house finch, downy woodpecker, fish crow, rock dove, gold finch. And another 38 kinds drop by for visits. A couple of Mallard scooted in to see the South Fountain. Evenden, lurking in the bushes, spotted itinerant yellow-throats, towhees, pewees, chickadees...
Marianne Jordan Ann Arbor, Mich...
What recruiters do not talk about is the sky-high housing costs. Last year the average price of a house was almost $74,000 in the Santa Clara Valley, vs. $43,000 in the nation as a whole. Ted Oliver, an engineer for Sycor in Ann Arbor, Mich., turned down a job with Memorex in the valley because he figured that, despite the handsome pay and perks, "I would have had to accept a lower living standard at double the cost." No doubt many other employees, new and old, are happy out in the valley. But with the nation...
...European terrain. Carrico knows a bit more about combat than his fellow fantasists. In real life, he is an operations officer at the battle-simulation center at Fort Carson, Colo., home of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. The captain was part of a five-man group flown to Ann Arbor in the personal staff plane of Fort Carson's commanding officer, Major General John Forrest...
When the guns finally fell silent in Ann Arbor, the battlefields were littered with cigarette butts, empty Coke bottles and hot dog wrappers. The victors trooped home bearing 69 engraved plaques and 225 runners-up certificates (the Fort Carson Army group suitably took first prize in the NATO armored battle simulation...